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July 13, 2007

G89: Blue Jays 6, Red Sox 5

MLBTV was blacked out for me at work tonight, so I followed along via Gameday.

Down by one in the 9th, the Sox had Lugo on second and Pedroia on first with one out and the bats they wanted at the plate -- Ortiz and Ramirez -- but tonight wasn't the night for heroics. Tiz flied to center and Manny flied out right.

Manny's two-run blast to left in the 1st gave Boston a 2-0 lead. In the third, Sexy Lips allowed four runs, but then the Sox got three in the home half of the inning, highlighted by Mike Lowell's two-run triple (!) to center.

Kyle Snyder ran into some trouble after two were gone in the 6th -- a walk to Vernon Wells and doubles by Reed Johnson and Alex Rios.

The Red Sox mustered only four hits over the final six innings.

Mike Timlin came out of the pen to end Snyder's mess and then he pitched the 7th and 8th. He retired all seven men he faced. In his last seven appearances, he's pitched 10.1 innings and allowed three hits, three walks and zero runs.

After contributing a month and a half of stellar starting pitching, Marcum ... allowed eight earned runs in 3.1 innings against the Cleveland Indians [last Saturday], as his ERA jumped from 2.86 to 3.62. He has yielded three earned runs in 15 career innings against the Red Sox.

More than half of those innings came in a start -- and 5-0 win -- last September 25: 8-2-0-1-10.

Looking at the box for that game, I see Doug Mirabelli saw 21 pitches in 3 PA (10-6-5, all strikeouts), five more than Kevin Youkilis (4-4-3-5) or David Ortiz (7-1-5-3) saw in 4 PA. Weird.

8 of his 15 innings was in that one game, and Mirabelli seeing more pitches is the odd little fact. What we should like is that as a starter this year Marcum gets Tim Wakefield like run support. 4.0 runs per game.

In his 7 no decisions and his loss as a starter the Jays have scored 8 runs in his 48 1/3 innings pitched.

Butch Stearns is the one pushing this trade. His reasoning is that Papi isn't being Papi, Ellsbury is going to be the center fielder next year and that Griffey wants out of Cincy with his 9 mil contract for this year.

He also wants to include Bowdin(sp?), Lester or Bucholtz(sp?) and maybe Moss or Murphy.

The only way I would do it is if Ortiz went down for the season, and I would not trade Coco. How many spectacular catches has he made in critical situations this year that saved runs? At least 10, heck, he's probably done that just in Beckett's starts.

Buffy/Tabler: "The thing about the Red Sox lineup is that they all hit differently, you can't just go out there and pitch them all the same way."

Buffy will make a dandy pitching coach one day.

It reminds me of a headline I saw linked somewhere, something like: "Health is key to Oakland's second half chances"

In other news:"Health is key to Boston's second half chances""Health is key to Detroit's second half chances""Health is key to the Angels' second half chances""Health is key to Seattle's second half chances""Health is key to Cleveland's second half chances"

Here's something I agree with from the announcers, and one reason I love this team so much. It seems like they take full advantage of every opponent mistake - pounce all over it and wring it for all it's worth.

I wonder if the people who didn't want Lugo on the team because he may have hit his wife have any issues with Timlin, who has unabashedly supported the torture, rape and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq?

"I wonder if the people who didn't want Lugo on the team because he may have hit his wife have any issues with Timlin, who has unabashedly supported the torture, rape and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq?"

"This is really true: When Manny Ramirez gets custom-made clothing at a chic Boston store, when the tailor embroiders Ramirez's monogram, instead of his actual initials, Manny has "MBM" sewn into his shirts and jackets. Yup. Manny Being Manny."

And , I haven't seen the HBO show yet, but I think the but thing is his ignorance saying that if you take steriods you HAVE to shot them in your but, He is such an idiot and very angry....And trying to call Torre a racist.c'mon, and also Jeter wasn't black enough....And why does HBO do a story on him anyway , how is he signifigant in anyway for public commentary

Like Sheff isn't aware of the non-detecting HGH...which I heard rumors that a lot of a-list actors take this now, its the fountain of youth at like $10,000 /a month.....

And with recalling the Timlin thing , I remember vividly about L-girl and some feminist wetsuit taking out timlin from ythe hotel in the skydome.....the other quote was just the quickest when I found, I knew it was sept.

And redsock I got your Dustin in the wind joke , funny....kinda...:)

One last thing on Sheff from the GQ article:

“What I called is that you’re going to see more black faces, but there ain’t no English going to be coming out.....

"Well, will have to get the rest of this game on the radio as I go earn the dance lessons. "

Hmm. Does everyone understand that but me?

I had to leave to go to job number 2, which basically pays for the ball room dance lessons for the s1c-ette, and also pays for the flute lessons, the guitar lessons and basically everything else that a 16 year old daughter wants or needs to round out her life.

"I remember vividly about L-girl and some feminist wetsuit taking out timlin from ythe hotel in the skydome"

I've never understood a sentence less than I have this one. Please explain. Also, I'm starting a band called Feminist Wetsuit.

While trying to figure this all out, I noticed that the first definition of "feminist" (which was awesome, and I stopped reading there, as I'd guess there are some definitions I woudn't want to read...) on urban dictionary was from "laurie k." Is that L-girl?

It seemed like her writing style as well as something she might say. So when I saw something so close to Laura K as the author, I figured "laurie k" might be a secret "writin' definitions on websites" moniker (Ka-moniker?) of hers....